The Puzzle of Left-handedness
The "puzzle" here, according to Rik Smits, is that while left-handedness is an enduring characteristic of humans, it has long been seen as an aberration, linked to all sorts of negativity and widely...
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To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora
With this book, Tom Devine, Scotland's best-known historian, completes a trilogy of surveys of Scotland at home and abroad. The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (1999) examined the rise of modern Scotland...
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The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal about Human Nature
Another narrow Darwinian conception of economic behaviour tries Isabelle Szmigin's patience
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?thelstan: The First King of England
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described him as "lord of nobles, treasure-giver to men". The Welsh called him mechteyrn, "great king". The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury said: "The whole of...
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A Little History of Philosophy
The continuing success of the slow food movement - the ethical, nutritional and aesthetic reaction to the meteoric rise of junk food during the 20th century - sadly appears to be accompanied by an...
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Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990
Patrick Hannay reflects on the waste and diversion of energy by a movement that purported to cure a cultural malaise
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Diary
LondonBetween Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of AsiaFor many in the West, if they think about the area at all, Afghanistan, Mongolia and the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan...
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The Pick - The Passenger
Credit: Catherine AshmoreThe PassengerEnglish National OperaWe are on a glitzy ocean liner in the early 1960s. Walter, a German diplomat, and his wife Liese are setting off to Brazil. Suddenly she is...
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I'm sorry, I'll write that again
"This could be the end for Lapping." That was the ominous response of Louise Bimpson, Corporate Director of Human Resources, to the revelation that Gordon Lapping, head of our Department of Media and...
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Tier 4 tinkering may end in British tears
Your article on the University of Greenwich's concerns about the 20 per cent drop in the number of international students applying for its places in 2011-12 filled us with trepidation ("Visa reform...
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Blame, a zero-sum game
The casual reader of Simon Lee's article "'Progressive' austerity and the obvious death of Lib Dem England" (15 September) could be forgiven for supposing that the UK had a Liberal Democrat-dominated...
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Change from the top down
I am writing to clarify some points raised by your article about Richmond, The American International University in London and its recent probationary status with the Middle States Commission on...
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Wheels fall off model
It was disappointing that the report celebrating Toyota as a model of efficiency made no reference to its repeated product recalls ("Academic efficiency drive may put Toyota at the wheel", 15...
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Luxury retreat
You write that higher education institutions should be able to develop unique brands because the retail industry has at least 150 distinctive marques ("Swap camels for custom vehicles", 8 September...
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These uncertain ratios
The letter from Gijsbert Stoet ("Rewarding equality", 1 September) points out that gender ratios in academia may simply reflect different choices made by women and men, who tend to be influenced...